oh my back

My hat is off to you all who shoot field sports all day and not reach for the bottle of Advil when you get home.

I was shooting a track & field event, standing for close to 4 hours, carrying a 1DII with a Sigma 100-30/4 and a 40D with a 24-105/4. I had lots of back pain for the past 2 days. Granted I have serious lower back issues, but I didn't expect this much discomfort. A similar thing happened 3 weeks ago when I was hanging around basketball gyms all day, carrying a bag full of gear.

Now my wife is telling me she doesn't want to see me with my camera bag around the kids' sporting events for a while. I am told it's time to shoot some video.

With Christmas around the corner, a lighter body for sports is beginning to sound very appealing. T1i? (& 85 for gyms, & 70-210 for fields)

Can't go wrong with a T1I, I used a friends Nikon d70 I believe an it was heavy, when I picked up my T1I I almost dropped the darn thing it was so light, I was swinging it around like it was nothing.

I agree... I use a T1i as a 2nd body to my 1D2. Nice pairing... great for low-light, high-ISO (6400/12800), more megapixels to crop from, HD video to tinker with, plus 1.6x (vs 1.3 on the 1D2) so it's like having a TC built in without taking the 1-stop hit... your zooms stretch a little bit further, but still stay fast.

The AF is pretty good on the T1i. For no real reason, I shot the entire Youth Football Championship games on Saturday with it and kept my 1D2 in my backpack...

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Clarence;
Your night shots with the T1i have always impressed me. I don't know if it's the camera or your high ISO processing skills, nevertheless, they look fantastic. Gaining a stop or so over my 40D and 1DII would be a great welcome.

Thanks.

With so many pictures, I don't do much processing on my pictures at all. If it's over ISO 1600 I'll run them through a batch job with the default settings in Neatimage. Then I spend <30 seconds per picture in Picasa to straighten horizons and crop.

clarence wrote in post #9037714
Thanks.

With so many pictures, I don't do much processing on my pictures at all. If it's over ISO 1600 I'll run them through a batch job with the default settings in Neatimage. Then I spend <30 seconds per picture in Picasa to straighten horizons and crop.

They look great !!!. what software / template do you use to display them. That is the coolest display I have seen. AND I HAVE LOOKED.

davethejnz wrote in post #9039267
They look great !!!. what software / template do you use to display them. That is the coolest display I have seen. AND I HAVE LOOKED.

Thanks. That's Simpleviewer:
http://www.simpleviewe​r.net/simpleviewer/

The link is in the bottom-right of each gallery.

If I'm shooting more than one one field sport game/match, I'll break out the monopod. I'm really sore after a weekend-long basketball tourney though.

It's my knees that kill me... from kneeling to get low. I bring my Home Depot kneepads.

I've also used the floormat from my Jeep to sit on... that's a lot more comfortable than kneeling for 8 hours.

Those are great photos Clarence. I'm starting to think I need to work on my skills and not blame the equipment

rhua21 wrote in post #9039770
I'm starting to think I need to work on my skills and not blame the equipment

I did that and after spending a few $s I realized the same thing.